Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, historian of ideas, and a longtime instructor of the peaceful martial art aikido. He has written a number of books in Swedish as well as English, both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter is an interpretation of the Chinese classic Tao Te Ching and of the Japanese samurai classic Go Rin no Sho by Miyamoto Musashi. In the history of ideas he studies the thought patterns of creation myths, as well as Aristotle’s Poetics.